Re: cannot find libncurses
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:45:38PM -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote:
> When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following:
> --------------------------------
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
You need to install libncurses5-dev. In order to build things against a
library rather than simply running them, development libraries are
necessary.
> When I do 'dpkg -l libncurses5' I get:
> pi libncurses5 5.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal
> handling
>
> Does this mean that it is installed but has a problem?
No, it means you've told dselect to purge it but haven't carried that
out yet.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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